Date: Tue, 15 Sep 1998 19:07:01 +0900 From: Masafumi NAKANE/=?iso-2022-jp?B?GyRCQ2Y6LDJtSjgbKEI=?= <max@wide.ad.jp> To: obrien@NUXI.com Cc: max@wide.ad.jp Subject: Re: cvs commit: ports/japanese/gd - Imported sources Message-ID: <19980915190701M.masafumi@aslm.rim.or.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 15 Sep 1998 02:31:34 -0700" <19980915023134.A1447@nuxi.com> References: <19980915023134.A1447@nuxi.com>
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>> > Good point. Maybe we should just update the port that is
>> already > (ports/graphics/gd) if there is nothing
>> Japanese-centric about it.
>>
>> Sorry for my less information. This port has patches for
>> creation GIF from Japanese kanji fonts. This will be used by
>> ja-apache*-php* for creating Kanji GIF on the fly.
>>
>> I'll add description about it into pkg/COMMENT. Thanks!
> So. It is still usable by everyone, right? Non-Japanese wont
> notice anything different, right? So why not update
> ports/graphics/gd with this one?
It sounds okay while there is only patch for this progarm to support
Japanese. But what if, for example, Chinese, Korean or Vietnamies
patches came out and they were exclusive to each other? Which patch
should we integrate to ports/graphics/gd? Since there seems only
Japanese patch is know to be out there, it may be okay to integrate it
in graphics/gd, but we may have to move that to japanese/gd in future.
I have a feeling that providing FreeBSD port of Japanese something
will let many people be aware of the fact that there is Japanese patch
for ceratin program, and that would increase the chance for people in
other language environment to create a patch for their own language.
Thus, resulting in the situation illustrated above. So, I would say
that even though there is only Japanese patch at this moment, it is
probably wise to separate it in the Japanese category.
If the original author of gd decided to integrate that patch in
his/her original distribution, the story is totally different, of
course, though.
Cheers,
Max
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